Campbell Collections

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Sezela Sugar Mill

Sezela Sugar Mill

Skippy

Self. 1941

Sezela Sugar Mill

Sezela Sugar Mill

Sezela Sugar Mill

Sezela Sugar Mill

Self

Self, 1941

Gran and Dad

Gran and Dad, 1938.

Self

Self, 1941.

Sezela Sugar Mill

Sezela Sugar Mill

Iris.S. Henderson parents

Henderson parents, mom and dad, 1938.

Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979

Madela with the ladle for fetching the clouds during a thunderstorm, "ukuphaka izulu" (to ladle out-as food-the heaven) Cf. "Medizinen", plate 14 and pp. 84, 85.

Sezela Sugar Mill

Sezela Sugar Mill

Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979

The round stone from the river smeared both flat sides crosswise with black anti-lightning medicine

Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979

Madela has the rod in his left hand and the stone in his right hand.

A view of the town and Island of St Helena (B)

Black and white scene of St Helena.

Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979

Laduma demonstrate how he prevents the lightning to strke his kraal by means of a lightning-rod partly smeared with anti-lightning medicine. Madela turns slowly to the four quarters of the globe pointing with the rod towards the heaven. He changes the hands in which he holds the rod.

"Ceremonie des peuples de Guinee pour la circumcision"

Black and white abstracts of a circumsion of an infant ceremony in Guinee.

Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979

Hlomeleni Madela, Laduma's unmarried daughter, takes the chance to expose her little granddaughter to smoke of "wild animals"= inyamazane, to make the baby strong and healthy.

Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979

In Bafungile's house: Two healing methods combined, "inyamazane" and " chasing awya evat ghost or evil spirit" 1. "Inyamazane"= wild animals (remains) i.e. inhale smoke of small parts of burned animals, especially antelops, put in potsherd. This method is called "ukuhogela", i.e.

'Suplices de people de Guinee'

Black and white scene of men fighting with another being slain.

Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979

Laduma, sitting on Bafungile's bed, scraping goat horns to prepare them as medicine containers. He works them on a wooden head rest, turned upside down. In the foreground a very low table with one of the two armlets Madela is preparing from genet skin.

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